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Chapter 5
The PC Connection
One of the most exciting features of your Topfield TF 5800 PVR is one of the ones you probably won’t notice in day to day use. It’s the USB connector on the rear panel. USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, and it’s a standard connector found on just about every modern home computer.
The USB connection on your PVR allows you to connect it to your computer and transfer files between the computer and the PVR. You can copy MP3 music files from the computer, and play them on the PVR, and you can transfer recorded pro- grammes from the PVR to your computer’s hard disk.
It’s even possible to use the USB connection to update the built in software that controls your PVR and to add additional soft- ware to it, to change the way that it works.
We’ll explain how to play MP3s and transfer software between your computer and PVR in the next chapter. In this one, we’ll explain how to set up the software on your computer and move files to and from the PVR.
Your Topfield PVR needs special software installed on your PC to connect to it, including a driver. You must install this software before connecting the PVR to the PC.
